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Recent Books Published by UGA History Faculty

Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009)
Susan Mattern, Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (Johns Hopkins, 2008)
Karl Friday, The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado (John Wiley, 2008)
Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton University Press, 2008)
Peter C. Hoffer, The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr (Kansas, 2008)
James C. Cobb, Georgia Odyssey: A Short History of the State (University of Georgia Press, 2008)
Peter C. Hoffer, The Historian's Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time (NYU, 2008)
John Inscoe, Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South (University Press of Kentucky, 2008)
Ari Levine, Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China (Hawaii, 2008)
Stephen Berry, House of Abraham: Lincoln & The Todds, a Family Divided by War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
Stephen Berry, Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (University of Georgia Press and Southern Texts Society, 2007) Editor
Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Harvard, 2007)
Reinaldo Román, Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Peter C. Hoffer, The Brave New World: A History of Early America (Hopkins, 2007)
Peter C. Hoffer, The Supreme Court: An Essential History (Kansas, 2007) co-edited
Peter C. Hoffer, Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped America (PublicAffairs, 2006)
Benjamin Ehlers, Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
Kathleen Clark, Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the American South, 1863-1913 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford University Press, 2005)
John Inscoe, Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (LSU Press, 2005) co-editor
Michael P. Winship, The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison (Random House, 2005) with Ed Larson
John Morrow, Jr., The Great War: An Imperial History (Taylor & Francis, 2005)
James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Michael P. Winship, The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided (Kansas, 2005)
Peter C. Hoffer, Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History (PublicAffairs, 2004)
Susan Mattern, The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Karl Friday, Samurai, Warfare, and the State in Early Medieval Japan (Routledge, 2004)
Peter C. Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America (Hopkins, 2003)
Peter C. Hoffer, The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law (University Press of Kansas,, 2003)
Stephen Berry, All That Makes a Man: Love & Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Thomas Whigham, The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
Robert A. Pratt, We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 2002)
William W. Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War (Princeton, 2002)
Pamela Voekel, Alone before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico (Duke, 2002)
Michael P. Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641 (Princeton, 2002)
Diane Batts Morrow, Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1826-1860 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Adam Sabra, Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Timothy Cleaveland, Becoming Walata: A History of Saharan Social Formation and Transformation (Heinemann, 2001)
John Inscoe, "Enemies of the Country": New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South (University of Georgia Press, 2001) co-editor
Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
John Inscoe, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina's Civil War (UNC Press, 2000) co-authored with Gordon B. McKinney
Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Egalité, Fiscalité (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
John Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: From Slavery to Segregation in the Mountain South (University Press of Kentucky, 2000) editor
Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 (Cambridge, 1999)
Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999)
Susan Mattern, Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate (University of California Press, 1999)
Miranda Pollard, Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France, 1940-1944 (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Laura Mason, The French Revolution: A Document Collection (Houghton-Mifflin, 1998)
Karl Friday, Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 1997) with Seki Humitake
John Inscoe, James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy (Georgia Historical Society, 1997) A Tercentenary, edited
Peter C. Hoffer, The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History (University Press of Kansas, 1997)
Michael P. Winship, Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment (Johns Hopkins, 1996)
Peter C. Hoffer, The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (Hopkins, 1996)
Laura Mason, Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Revolutionary Politics, 1787-1799 (Cornell, 1996)
James C. Cobb, The Mississippi Delta and the World: The Memoirs of David L. Cohn (Louisiana State Press, 1995) editor
John Inscoe, Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950 (UGA Press, 1994)
James C. Cobb, The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
James C. Cobb, The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Oxford University Press, 1992)
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (University of Virginia Press, 1992)
Karl Friday, Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford University Press, 1992)
John Inscoe, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: A Southern Historian and His Critics (Greenwood Press, 1990) co-edited
John Inscoe, Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (University of Tennessee Press, 1989)
James C. Cobb, Perspectives on the American South, Vol. IV (Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1987) coeditor
Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (University of North Carolina Press, 1986)
James C. Cobb, Perspectives on the American South, Vol. III (Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1985) coeditor
James C. Cobb, Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984 (University Press of Kentuckyky, 1984)
James C. Cobb, The New Deal and the South (University Press of Mississippi, 1984) coeditor
John Inscoe, The New Georgia Encyclopedia (, ) editor
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